Humans, apparently, throw like gods

https://lemmy.world/post/3086359

Humans, apparently, throw like gods - Lemmy.world

pretty much all of our sports

The rest of the post is great, but this is simply not true

“pretty much all” is a stretch, but it’s hard to disagree with that throwing things accurately is an aspect of a lot of our sports. And definitely the extreme dominant trait in American sports.

Yes - humans can throw things so some sports feature throwing.

Humans can kick, so some sports have kicking. Humans can punch, guess what, sports have punching. Humans can think logically, would you be surprised to hear about mind games?

I’d be more shocked if we had sports based around flying naked or extracting energy from sulphuric salts.

You’re kinda intentionally missing the point.

If you had to pick one uniquely human aspect to group together as many sports as possible, what would you pick?

Teamwork is out because wolves hunt in packs and lions hunt in prides. Logic is arguable, everything we do is based in either emotion or logic, so it’s not a good answer imo.

So what do you have left? Kicking and throwing are probably your best bets.

what would you pick?

If I want to create a set with the largest amount of sports? They’re team based. Humans are particularly good at forming teams, recognizing team members, allocating mental tasks to others and deep communications. In fact, these characteristics are a very large reason behind our taste for sports and cheering.

team work is out

Huh… if team work is out because wolves can do it, throwing objects is out because several animals can do it.

You might say they can’t do it as well as us… but wolves can’t do team play as well as us, so the argument is the same.